In recent years, several projects have attempted to quantify the information on various media. This research is original but subject to numerous methodological problems (concerning originals, copies, value, etc.) and it raises more general accounting and statistical questions (about satellite…

Aristotle could write that we ascribe “universal education to one who in his own individual person is thus critical in all or nearly all branches of knowledge, and not to one who has a like ability merely in some special…

From the perspective of copyright holders, piracy represents lost revenue. In this article we argue that piracy nevertheless has important generative features. We consider the range of commercial opportunities that piracy opens up outside of the media industries, identifying four…

This Special Issue of the Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences arises from an inaugural conference on “Mechanism-Based Natural Product Development” held at Whistler Mountain, Canada on September 21-22, 2012.
The aim of the conference was to bring together scientists…